'Starve or get sick': Africa's lockdown dilemma

Women and children fell to the ground, bloodied and trampled in a desperate surge for food being handed out in a Nairobi slum, as police fired teargas and men with sticks beat the hungry. As African countries grapple with the coronavirus pandemic, observers warn that the traumatic scenes which played out last Friday will not be the last if governments fail to help millions of urban poor who live hand-to-mouth. Kenya has so far cordoned off the capital and parts of its coastline and imposed a night-time curfew and other social distancing measures.

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